That's not to say that Pacific Assault veers toward 100-percent realism. It's not one-shot, one-kill like a Tom Clancy-inspired tactical shooter. You can still take and absorb quite a bit of damage in the game, and if your health bar is knocked down to zero, you'll go into the verge of death cam. Basically, the entire world will turn a fuzzy black and white, your hearing will be muted, and you'll fall to the ground and stare up at the sky. You'll still see the battle raging around you, and your only hope at this point is for your corpsmen to be able to reach you and patch you up. If so, you'll get back up on your feet and resume the battle. But if a Japanese soldier reaches you first, he may look down at you and then plant his bayonet in your face to finish you off, or you'll simply bleed to death. In that case, the world will slowly turn black as the cold embrace of death wraps around you.